Elgoods Cambridge Bitter (Bottle)

Brewed by Elgoods
Style: Bitter
Wisbech, England

Serve in English pint

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bottle, nice smoothy hoppy aroma, amber, clear, white foam, medium bitterness, medium sweetness, medium body, slick feel, soft carbonation, bitter, average good bitter

This was the first beer on one of my ’random beer tsting nights’ (20th April 2010). Brown 500ml bottle, slightly out of date and poured into a Batemans pint sleeve. Good mid-amber colour, off-white head of tightly knit foam which showed good retension and produced some good lacing on the glass. Fuggles and Challenger hops are used and the blend marries well in both the bitterness of taste and with the malted barley in the aroma which was an almost sweet toffee smell as the beer warmed a little. I found the beer to be refreshing, crisp and tastey, full of a true English Bitter flavour (hoppy, malty and very drinkable. The 3.8%ABV makes this a very good session beer and I look forward to having another one day soon.

3.8% amber colour with a thin head, malt and hop aroma malt and hop taste. New much improved new label

In bottle. Pours a chestnut colour with a decent beige head. Aroma of caramel, toffee and yeast. Similar flavours with a dry finish. Moderate carbonation. Not bad.

A copper coloured beer with a burnt toffee flavour and a creamy, fruity and almond finish.

Amber with a small white head. Malty aroma with caramel and a floral touch. Sweetish malty flavour with fresh cereal and a fruity note.

500ml bottle (ChrisO’s, post RBESG2011 Sunday)
A dry and nutty bitter. Tastes a bit old, may have been past its BB. Solid enough, but nothing grabs you.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, malty, toffee. Flavour is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average to long duration, toffee, dry, malt extract. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110807]

Bottled from Cambridge Wine Merchant, Cambridge. Amber color with medium white head. Fruity aroma with hops. taste, bittersweet, fruity. Nothing special.

Bottle, from Tesco, Scunthorpe. Copper gold, thin but lasting white head and low condition. Gentle sweet toffee and biscuits in the nose, muted fruity malt notes and a soft chalky hoppiness in the mouth, lingering hop bitter finish.